We teach cyber security awareness, ethical hacking, and penetration testing. Members from all walks of life and backgrounds come together to learn more about cyber security at Penetration Testers Playground. People that show up at our events often include: 1)  Business Owners 2)  CEOs, CFOs and CTOs 3)  Federal Agents and Police Officers 4)  Computer Security Professionals 5)  Penetration Testers 6)  Ethical Hackers 7)  Exploit Researchers 8)  IT Professionals 9)  Computer Programmers 1 …

The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA ®) is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It provides educational forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill and professional growth of its members. The primary goal of ISSA is to promote management practices that will ensure the availability, integrity and confidentiality of information resources.

This is a club where like minded Ethical Hackers, Penetration Testers and Network / Computer Security professionals can come together and share knowledge. More geared on the technical side, we plan to have hands activities. Bring your coolest exploits or just a passion to learn!

This is a group for anyone interested in web development with the MODX content management framework (modx.com). I started this group to help get the word out about this great CMS and meet other talented developers and designers so we can share ideas and help save the internet, one web site at a time. The meetings are intended to be social and professional: we'll present on various web-related topics e.g. PHP development, best practices, tips and tricks, web security, new features, migrating from …

"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. ... We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy ... We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. ... Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and ... we're going to write it. "

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a not-for-profit, worldwide organization focused on improving the security of application software. Our mission is to make application security visible, so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about true application security risks. Everyone is free to participate in OWASP and all of our materials are available under a free and open software license. The OWASP Los Angeles chapter typically meets on the 4th Wednesday every m …

LA Makerspace is a non-profit member-driven family friendly community space for makers, tinkerers, and DIYers of all ages to create and collaborate. Contact Info: http://www.lamakerspace.com/contact Our mission is to provide a place where youth can make and learn alongside adults and where members can work on their own projects while learning new, unique maker skills through our workshops, on-going interest-based programs, mentorship, and peer learning environment. We offer affordable single cla …

This is what we want to do: Secure Locations for Real-Life Swap Events - Clothes Swap Parties & Community Exchange Events Members can Host swaps at home or another location. We are looking for local businesses to host swap events also....and we may try to rent out venues as well if we come up with ways to pay for that. We may get some vendors (to help pay for the rent). Have crafters, indie designers and artists set up shop and offer some great OOAK stuff. Pull together as many people as possib …

WordPress is a very popular Content Management System(CMS) that can ultimately do whatever you want. This meetup is aimed towards helping people who are new to WordPress, need to learn more about WordPress, or are having trouble with WordPress. This class can even help self acclaimed WordPress Professionals with security in their WordPress plugins and themes. This class is really aimed towards WordPress beginners who want to use WordPress for their business, personal use, or any other purpose. …

The San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers Group is an organization of software architects, developers and Microsoft .NET framework enthusiasts who want to learn, share, innovate, network and develop. The salient purposes of this organization are stated below: Microsoft.NET framework is a major advancement in the available software development platforms. Our main goal is to educate the group membership to fully utilize the potential of .NET framework and use its powerful features to build better sof …

Exploring cloud computing technologies, implementation, use and business. Ideas of Interest * Cross cloud deployments * Security in cloud deployments * Datacenters * Virtualization * Test driven deployment * GPU computing * Decentralized datastores * Scientific computing

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

This group will focus on the use of Amazon CloudSearch for the development and deployment of search applications. Amamzon CloudSearch is a fully-managed search service in the cloud that runs in the AWS cloud. Presentations and discussions will cover topics such as: Set up and getting started with CloudSearch Configuring search fields Relevance tuning APIs and integration Security Working with other AWS services User cases and lessons learned This group is for anyone interested in search technolo …

Join Our Psychic Development and Mediumship Awareness! Gathering of Great People who wish to develop their psychic abilities in a comfortable environment. Our Group includes discussions on Spirituality, Mediumship, Psychic abilities, Angels, Spiritual Guide, Ghost, and other Phenomenon experiences. Training and Seminars are charged based on the event, training and location. (The suggested donations for group sessions run between $15.00 to $35.00, or more, based on workshop, training and certific …

Join Our NLP-Hypnosis & Alternative Emotional Support and Study Group! It is all about Allowing The Law of Attraction-NLP-Hypnosis & Study Group! And it's part of Enter Your Mind Center, INC. Non-Profit. Our Group includes discussions on the Allowing The Law Of Attraction which focuses on forgiveness, letting go, and manifestation. Our emphasis is on the principle of self healing and empowerment, instead of the regular "law of attraction" that confuses you with "like attracts like and negative a …

This group shares lessons learned about using Amazon Web Services, including API's, EC2, S3, Automation, Deployment, Security, ELB, High Availability, Business Continuity (Earthquake and Tsunami concerns in particular...) and learning about how others are currently using AWS. The purpose is to network, collaborate, share experiences and help others where possible. We conduct monthly meetings and discuss different approaches, uses and topics.

Looking for some real, considered feedback? Hoping to join a group that meets every two weeks instead of dying a quick death because people don't show up? Come join us for a bi-weekly writers group for serious writers actively looking to get into television writing and secure a job on a show. Whether you write web series, comedy, drama, scifi, or procedurals, this is the group to join!